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26.9.12
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lakes district news
KITCHENS
KITCHENS 44 LESS
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Phone: 03 445 0074 Fax: 03 445 0079
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• Irrigation Dams
• Water Races
• Roading
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We Design, Build & Maintain
• Fencelines
• Land Development
• Vegetation Clearing
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Alexandra Musical Society
presents
Book and Lyrics DAVID JOHN Music KEVIN LYNCH
Musical Arrangements RICHARD MARRETT
By arrangement with Hal Leonard Australia Pty Ltd
Directed bt Simon Coleman
Alexandra Memorial Theatre
Bookings
4891862ABTicketsonsalefrom10thSeptemberattheAlexandraTheatreBoxOffice,SkirdSt,Monday-Fridayfrom12-2pm(EFTPOSavailable)oronlinefrom3rdseptat:www.iticket.co.nzPhone0508iticket
Show D ates
Wednesday 26 Sept 8pm
Thursday 27 Sept 8pm
Friday 28 Sept 8pm
Final Night!
SHORT AND SHARP
Photographer wins big
Queenstown photographer
Jackie Ranken has been
named New Zealand
Photogra-
pher of the
Year 2012.
She also won
the award in
2008. Ms
Rankin this
year won
prizes in landscape and
creative portrait categories.
Her husband Mike Langford
won the travel category.
Ambulance boss
returns
About 10 years after leaving
the job as St Johns Wakatipu
boss, Kelvin Perriman is
returning as the new
operations team leader.
Starting in the position next
week he will be arriving with
his wife and two children
from Fox Glacier where the
couple own the Westhaven
Motel. Mr Perriman said he
was looking forward to
returning to a role that had
changed considerably.
Eamon Cleary
One of Queenstown’s
wealthiest businessmen,
part-time Irishman Eamon
Cleary, who died this week,
was a tough businessman but
no ogre, leasing agent Marty
Barwood said. His
Queenstown and Wanaka
portfolio included the
Queenstown Medical centre,
the block at the top of
Queenstown Mall including
Starbucks, the two arcades
between upper Beach and
Shotover streets and a large
piece of land near Wanaka
that he had hoped to develop.
His plan to develop historic
cottages on Arrowtown’s
Buckingham St in 2009
sparked public outrage and
led to them being
redeveloped by a trust.
Healthy weka born
Mork and Mindy have had a
baby. It is the first chick for
the buff weka based at
Queenstown’s Kiwi Birdlife
Park.
Kindy head teacher resigns
All involved refusing to comment
Resigned: Frankton Kindergarten
head teacher Pam Wild has resigned.
By BROOKE GARDINER
Frankton Kindergarten’s long-
serving head teacher has resigned
under mysterious circumstances.
Central Otago Kindergarten
Association manager Angela
Jacobson confirmed head teacher
Pam Wild had resigned after 12
years in the role, but was
reluctant to comment further.
‘‘I can’t really comment at all on
her resignation.’’
Mrs Wild had been on ‘‘sick
leave’’ since May and would
officially stand down from her
role on September 28, she said.
When asked how kindergarten
staff felt about Mrs Wild’s
resignation, she declined to
comment.
‘‘I don’t want to comment at all.
We’re at a point where she’s
resigning for personal reasons,’’
she said.
However, she did acknowledge
Mrs Wild’s contribution.
‘‘She’d been a valued member of
staff and the kindy community for
the 12 years.’’
Mrs Wild declined to comment.
Frankton Kindergarten Parent
Committee president John Smillie
also declined to comment on Mrs
Wild’s resignation.
The Mirror also enquired whether
Mrs Wild had laid a complaint
with the Employment Relations
Authority.
Ministry of Business, Innovation
and Employment communi-
cations adviser Sarah Moffat said
the ministry was unable to
comment on any matters in the
early stages of a dispute process.
‘‘This is due to the potential need
to keep future mediations confi-
dential.’’
Basking in travel guide’s glowing terms
Adventure: Mountain biking in Queenstown – highly recommended by Lonely Planet.
Photo: TIM CLAYTON
All about us: The
newest edition of
the Lonely Planet
New Zealand
travel guide.
The world’s most popular travel
guide, Lonely Planet, has released
its latest edition and has plenty to
say about the Queenstown and
Wanaka region.
Mountain biking in Queenstown
is singled out
as one of the
top 12 favour-
ite new recom-
mendations.
We, at the Mir-
ror, are also
pleased to see
that after two
editions with
the
wrong
phone number
for
Queenstown-
based South-
ern Laughter
backpackers,
that
the
authors have finally got it right.
June Howden, 88, who featured in
the Mirror in March this year as
the recipient of up to six phone
calls a day since 2008 for the
backpackers, is no doubt thrilled
also.
The edition also pays tribute to
the people in New Zealand saying
they had suffered a tough few
years having endured the Pike
River coal mine explosion, the
Rena oil spill, two Christchurch
earthquakes and the vagaries of
the global economy.
Here is a little of what the guide
has to say:
Queenstown: is a show-off . . .
wears its ‘‘Global Adventure
Capital’’ badge proudly . . . But a
new Queenstown is also emerg-
ing, with a cosmopolitan res-
taurant and arts scene, and
excellent vineyards.
Mountain biking Mecca: With
the opening of the Queenstown
Bike Park, the region is now
firmly established as an inter-
national focus for the sport.
Arrowtown: The only gold being
flaunted these days is on credit
cards.
Glenorchy: Set in achingly
beautiful surroundings, postage-
stamp-sized Glenorchy is the
perfect low-key antidote to
Queenstown.
Wanaka: The lakefront area
retains a laid-back, small-town
feel but it’s definitely not a sleepy
hamlet any more.